Academic Genealogy Graphed

The Mathematics Genealogy project is a huge database of mathematicians, where and when they got their degrees, and who their advisors were.  (There's also a wiki-based Philosophy Genealogy.)  Nice pastime when the polar vortex keeps you from leaving the house: find famous people in your academic family tree. If you're in the Mathematics Genealogy, you … Continue reading Academic Genealogy Graphed

CfP: Hilbert’s Epsilon and Tau in Logic, Informatics and Linguistics

Dates: June 10-12, 2015Location: Montpellier, FranceSubmission deadline: April 1, 2015 This workshop aims at promoting work on Hilbert’s epsilon calculus in a number of relevant fields ranging from Philosophy and Mathematics to Linguistics and Informatics. The Epsilon and Tau operators were introduced by David Hilbert, inspired by Russell's Iota operator for definite descriptions, as binding … Continue reading CfP: Hilbert’s Epsilon and Tau in Logic, Informatics and Linguistics

In Memoriam: Grigori Mints

A memorial site has been set up to honor Grisha's memory. A memorial conference in honor of Grisha Mints will be held at the Third St.Petersburg Days of Logic and Computability, August 24-26, 2015, at the Euler International Mathematical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia. The following obituary was included in the January 2015 Newsletter of the … Continue reading In Memoriam: Grigori Mints

Carnap (and Goodman and Quine) and Linguistics (Guest post by Darin Flynn)

 (This is a guest post by my linguistics colleague Darin Flynn) I was intrigued by your last post—that Carnap (apparently) gave serious consideration to suggestions by Gödel and Behmann that he use “semantics” rather than “syntax” in the title of his 1934 book. The story we’re told in linguistics is that Carnap learned to love … Continue reading Carnap (and Goodman and Quine) and Linguistics (Guest post by Darin Flynn)